Seabrook, TX:
Lakewood Yacht Club and Storm Trysail Foundation are offering their first U.S. Sailing certified offshore
Safety-at-Sea
seminar
April 14
, 2018.
"This unique course format will allow participants the opportunity to earn a World Sailing Certificate in a single day on location," says Seminar Chairman Chris Lewis.
The event is being offered to Texas and Gulf Coast area sailors with the support of Houston Yacht Club and the Galveston Bay Cruising Association and will be hosted at Lakewood Yacht Club.
"Following the success of the Storm Trysail Hands-on SAS Seminars held in the New York area every year, this new event will offer two instructional tracks," announced sailing expert Rich duMoulin who will moderate the seminar.
- US Sailing Offshore Certificate track limited to 80 participants that includes:
- STC instructional videos
- An opening session addressing on-the-water leadership skills
- Heavy weather sailing techniques
- Search and rescue/communications
- Storm sails
- Man overboard and MOB prevention
- Firefighting and pyrotechnics (observed)
- In-water survival – PFDs and life rafts (observed)
- World Sailing (Hands-on) Offshore Certificate track limited to 40 participants. The World Sailing track includes everything in the US Sailing track plus hands-on training in:
- US Sailing Online training
- Man overboard and MOB prevention
- Hands-on firefighting and pyrotechnics (flares)
- Hands-on In-water survival – PFDs and life rafts
- Hands-on Damage control and man overboard recovery drills
Some of the instruction will be obtained before the seminar via online teaching videos produced by long-time STC member Gary Jobson, an ardent ambassador for sailing in the U.S. Participants will get access to the instructional videos soon after registering.
Participants seeking World Sailing Offshore Certification will also be required to take the U.S. Sailing Offshore online video course and pass the associated online exam before attending the seminar. A certificate of completion must be provided at the seminar’s on-site check-in.
Don't miss the April 1st registration deadline.
This seminar will likely fill up rapidly since it is the only course of this type between the east and west coasts.
